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Prairie du Sac - Sauk City precipitation records

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:knb-lter-ntl.422.1
Title:Prairie du Sac - Sauk City precipitation records
Alternate Identifier:DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:

This is a compilation of total monthly precipitation for two stations. The Prairie du Sac NOAA data located at the Prairie du Sac dam on the Wisconsin River (43.31 , -89.7283) started in 1912 and ended in early 2008 for full monthly records thru 2007; during 2007 a local station was set up in Sauk City at the wastewater treatment plant (43.262 , -89.7349) with continuous data from 2008 thru the present. Both stations are relatively close (about 3.25 miles apart based on Google Earth), and both are about slightly more than 4 miles to the west of the centroid of Fish Lake in Dane Co.

Publication Date:2022-11-10
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Time Period
Begin:
1908
End:
2021

People and Organizations
Contact:NTL LTER [  email ]
Creator:Lathrop, Richard 
Creator:Hopkins, Edward J. 

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
monthly_precip
Description:
Records of monthly total precipitation
Detailed Metadata

Data Entities

Data Table

Data:https://pasta-s.lternet.edu/package/data/eml/knb-lter-ntl/422/1/430b4b82cb50edc8c684ddfd46e9a76b
Name:monthly_precip
Description:Records of monthly total precipitation
Number of Records:1392
Number of Columns:4

Table Structure
Object Name:monthly_precip.csv
Size:51945 byte
Authentication:bb3a3bf1c54111755d82a20654e33cbc Calculated By MD5
Text Format:
Number of Header Lines:1
Record Delimiter:\r\n
Orientation:column
Simple Delimited:
Field Delimiter:,
Quote Character:"

Table Column Descriptions
 stationYearmonthprecip
Column Name:station  
Year  
month  
precip  
Definition:station nameyear of samplingMonth of year of samplingtotal monthly precipitation
Storage Type:string  
float  
string  
float  
Measurement Type:nominalrationominalratio
Measurement Values Domain:
Definitionstation name
UnitnominalYear
Typeinteger
DefinitionMonth of year of sampling
Unitinch
Typereal
Missing Value Code:      
CodeNA
Explnot available
Accuracy Report:        
Accuracy Assessment:        
Coverage:        
Methods:        

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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
LTER Controlled Vocabularyprecipitation

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

With advice from Ed Hopkins, the Assistant State Climatologist, pdf’s of the original paper copies of the daily precipitation submissions of both stations were downloaded. Almost universally, precipitation over weekends and holidays was not recorded at the stations such that totals were recorded the following workweek day. In the early years, while the records for each single day were not always accurately recorded, the cumulative weekend/holiday totals were recorded such that one could get a full monthly total that was generally accurate. However, starting in 1996, because the cumulative weekend/holiday precipitation didn’t allow to know daily totals, those records were not submitted electronically to NOAA’s final database so they were recorded as missing data in NOAA’s electronic dataset. However, from the hand-written pdf’s it was possible to compile the monthly totals. In the process quite a few months were checked and a few errors in the NOAA totals fixed.

People and Organizations

Publishers:
Organization:Environmental Data Initiative
Email Address:
info@edirepository.org
Web Address:
https://edirepository.org
Id:https://ror.org/0330j0z60
Creators:
Individual: Richard Lathrop
Email Address:
rlathrop@wisc.edu
Individual: Edward J. Hopkins
Contacts:
Organization:NTL LTER
Address:
680 North Park Street,
Madison, WI 53706 United States
Email Address:
ntl.infomgr@gmail.com
Id:https://ror.org/04gq8q482

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period
Begin:
1908
End:
2021
Sampling Site: 
Description:PRAIRIE DU SAC 2 N
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -89.7283Latitude (degree): 43.31
Altitude (meter):230.0
Sampling Site: 
Description:SAUK CITY WWTP
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -89.7349Latitude (degree): 43.262
Altitude (meter):230.0

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Additional Metadata

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